Alun R Parry (FinstLM)

Career Position and Objectives

Senior IT & Business Interim Change Manager, adelivery focusedleader specialising in the delivery of Regulatory,ComplianceTime critical, projects working with forward thinking organisations to promote strategic design.

Excels in takingExecutive Organisational & Cultural Ownership, providing Governance, Leadership and Accountability, building trusted teams, to deliver complex projects to time and budget, applying Business Intelligence to strategic problem management and ensuring clear direction, promoting an honest and respectful approach to engaging and influencing Global business stakeholders. Executive stakeholder engagement and conflict management, excels in critical thinking and remaining calm

Keyskills

  • Global Data Platform Delivery ProgrammeManagerdelivering strategic CRM and ERP strategic frameworks
  • Head of Data Compliance (CDO)MDM ownership for delivering Data Platform reporting on GDPR & BCBS239
  • Agile-DSDM Practitioner (20y) providing incremental deliveries prioritised against quality driven requirements
  • Solutions Director providing executive options on best methods/practices ensuring economies of scale
  • Business Process re-engineering and solutions architecture management,Target Operating Model delivery
  • Regulatory & compliance managerdelivering Capital & Equity holding environments for Basel II
  • Project Delivery Director for the Leadership of multiple simultaneous Global Critical & Complex Projects
  • Business & Operational efficiencies, Payments, Budgetary (P&L) Management, (OPEX & CAPEX) to £165m
  • Proactive Communications regular and informative at all levels providing a single point of information
  • Business SOP’s & TOM, Process engineering and supporting procedures design solutions delivery
  • Operations standardisation, stakeholder governance and ITIL delivery framework implementation
  • Risk Manager, for Reputational, Conduct & Operational Regulatory Compliance, Conflict & Problem solving
  • Major Incidents Management (MIM), for major failures impacting business as usual and reputational outlook

Key Change successes

  • Designed and delivered Unified Data & Voice structured VPN environment for BT Friends & Family (£165m)
  • As Operations Risk Manager, successfully managed RM Results through to a 100% delivery of exam results
  • As CDO owned designed and implemented a new digital Data Platform for Access Prepaid (MasterCard)
  • Successfully delivered an expanded Salesforce model for CRM and Sales Project support to service desk
  • Provided regulatory risk management to restructure a major failed critical Data programme for Barclays
  • Successfully transitioned the BBC to a new Live broadcast operations & early Digital Media Infrastructure
  • Designed & delivered new products to market for Insurance and Finance clients (L&G, AXA, & Barclays)
  • Delivered four full Disaster Recovery tests for Flemings & Commerzbank for Regulatory FSA Certification

Career Synopsis

A2d Solutions LtdHead of Change Recovery & Data OperationsJan 15 to Present

Absolute-Designs LtdData Operations & Change Delivery DirectorJan 07 to Dec 14

Syn-e-tech LtdChange & Transition Project DirectorMay 01 to Jan 07

Quality Profile Projects LtdProject Delivery DirectorMar 93 to May 01

British Army (Royal Signals)Technical Operations, Training & Logistics Directorto Mar 93

ACHIEVEMENT HISTORY

A2D Solutions Limited – DirectorJan 2015 to Present

Primary Change & Project Recovery Director providing informed and experienced Consultants and Practitioner services covering the South West and providing City oriented project regeneration & recovery services to National businesses

A2D iDesigns Jan 17 to Present

Interim Project Managerfor three builds and fit out in support of Interior design team along with Business set up for

a New organisation while recruiting a permanent resource.

  • Introduced the concept of PiD and schedule Gantt documents to build teams to agree with clients.
  • Oversee the delivery of three new designs for clients and manage the build of a reformed property in Spain.

RM Results – London & Didcot Jan 16 to Dec 16

Executive accountability for the processing, security and compliance of all student transactional Data

  • Interim Operations Risk Manager with overall control of processing & delivering the 2016 exam results
  • CDO for transactional Data Compliance and Governance as the key decision maker for Data Operations
  • Organisational Governance and Cultural change leader to implement hierarchical Risk Framework
  • Major Incident Manager guided organisation through several potential Reputational Risk issues
  • Provided leadership for stakeholder communications, maintaining satisfaction levels and support
  • Implemented the adoption of a robust incident management framework and change management approach

HSBC – Sheffield, Birmingham & LondonFeb 15 to Oct 15

Responsible for supporting business separation, transformation and change while the position fomulated.

  • Interim Change Manager for HSBC Ringfenced Procurement Programmeto establish strategic plan
  • Definition and communication of a strategic roadmap for change, overseeing transformation activity
  • Provided ownership of all Static, Refence and Transactional Data including the contracts review team
  • Project planning consultancy, providing leadership for a viability review of all corporate contracts
  • Managed the restructuring of all contracts to match changing business requirements and transition
  • Successfully structured a procurement-wide working group & plan for migration to new Ltd Entity

Absolute-Designs Limited – Data Operations Delivery DirectorJan 07 to Jan 15

Principle Consultant Responsiblefor the delivery of professional Services in Business Recovery and building a consultancy revenue stream. Develop a business strategic roadmap planning & implementation of business improvement initiatives. Introduced cloud based CRM& Data BI working for the efficient & secure transfer of client data. Effectively promoted intelligence sharing between UK & Spanish interests to drive business economies of scale

MasterCard – Access Prepaid – London PeterboroughJan 13 to Dec 13

Responsible for leading delivery of a global operations portfolio and programme roll-out initiatives

  • Interim Global Operations Manager with full accountability to the President and Executive Committee
  • Global Programme Delivery Manager & set up of Programme Delivery Europe India, US & Australia
  • Led sales team approach to break into Chinese market and partnership with Alibaba Global Platform
  • Led design team to deliver an enhanced CRM framework based on Salesforce model
  • Finance Data Governance Director Designed the digital data platform design (BI & BPM), transition
  • Implemented Golden Source and Digital Data Warehouse for the delivery of analytical and
  • Programme delivery / onboarding KYC / AML approach Oracle, IBM & Informatica MDM

Barclays plc – Canary WharfMay 12 to Dec 12

Responsible for End to End programme leadership and delivery, change & transformation

  • Interim Change Consultant, working with the internal Programme Execution Group
  • Spearheaded the development of consistent programme delivery methods for multiple Wealth projects
  • Leadership, management and motivation of resources, including PMs, data architects & analysts
  • Managed the reintegration of Barclays Wealth ISA’s and reengineered the supporting business processes
  • As Championed implementation of Digital Data transition programmes, along with supporting projects
  • Led the data design & delivery of a replacement product (Avalog) in Zurich for three legacy systems
  • Led the Treasury team in a Global Estate analysis for contingency in case of future negative rate issues

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) – City of LondonAug 11 to Apr 12

Responsible for implementation & delivery of change within the Run the Bank Portfolio for RBS plc

  • Senior Change Delivery Manager (RTB Portfolio Director) with a remit for the delivery of change
  • Defined, prepared & constructed budgets and resource requirements within RBS for the FY 2012
  • Provision of consultancy guidance as a key member of the Equities Change Management Team
  • Restructured the Change Team and introduced delivery-led processes into a changing business
  • Introduced Business Process Management design principles to the team, adopting best practice
  • Delivered a portfolio of Global Base Currency environments to support the Equities Front Office

HSBC – Canary WharfMay 11 to Aug 11

Responsible for leading end-to-end programme delivery across business and technology elements

Interim Senior Programme Manager in client on-boarding & account management (COBAM)

  • Focused on realising change in the form of a consistent project delivery framework and approach
  • Leadership and control of 7 global programme streams, consisting of multiple projects per stream
  • Direct management and motivation of global offshore client support teams and support resources
  • Provided top-level guidance on full operational and reputational risk for the take-on of new clients
  • Drove the implementation of PCI and FSA controls on Digital Data Security across all programmes

Barclays Capital – Canary WharfDec 09 to May 11

Responsible for leading the successful remediation of Agent Lending Disclosure (ALD) saving £9m a day

  • EU-ALD IT & Business Manager Troubleshooting of an FSA-mandated Regulatory Risk Reporting
  • Provided Global Business management for the newly introduced Agent Lending transaction business
  • Provided change focus on issues, along with managing overall RWA risk assessment and reporting
  • Assembled an FO & BO global ALD Project Team, with Prime Services, Treasury, Risk and Legal
  • Negotiated and delivered a new global vendor-led reconciliation engine solution (One View)
  • Led reprocess of KYC and agent trade on-boarding, re-designing the front to back reporting tools

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) – London South BankOct 08 to Oct 09

Interim Business Consolidation Manager tasked with the reduction of property holdings and personnel integration within London due to the RBS ABN-Amro M&A.

  • Work with Group property to take over the new Bankside buildings, negotiate on contractual fulfilment
  • Carry out resource planning for the future with HR and Group Property for the new building services
  • Apply workforce reductions and economies of scale based on new footprint for Equities Trading
  • Negotiate with catering, transport and local government agencies to ensure services availability
  • Creating, planning and managing a Transition Programme for Change and Consolidation IT Business Group to move 3500 people to a new set of locations within London

QBE Europe – London & ChelmsfordAug 07 to Oct 08

Interim Business Operations Manager

Scope: Senior Leader directing CEO Level Management on the QBE IT Business Change programmes.

  • Transition several smaller organisations brought in by Mergers & Acquisitions, into a single Company.
  • Manage and lead a number of Operational & EU regulatory compliance programme initiatives
  • Carry out an extensive European search for a new consolidatedEuropean Data Centre,
  • Build & provide business case for options and lead negotiations on selected short-listed vendors sit.
  • Design and implement a new CMDB environment for the support of the new European Data Centre
  • Implement data security and integrity for migration of all client data post-Merger & Acquisition
  • Ensure full compliance with CCA, FCA rules and guidelines and produce a compliance framework
  • Design and implement a Digital Data Warehouse environment for legacy policies documents.
  • Drove negotiations for the transition of operations from the 3rd party host company saving £.5m a year

Barclays – Canary WharfFeb 07 to Aug 07

Operational Risk Consultant

Scope: Provided the leadership, direction and vision for Investigation of Business need against benefits and to harmonise both (BASEL II Operational Risk & Sarbanes Oxley financial reporting) Corporate Risk environments into a single Group Operational Risk Model

  • Implement the integration of Sarbanes Oxley requirements with the Business Operating model.
  • Define the risk framework process and procedure to ensure full compliance across the board
  • Negotiate with various senior stakeholders on prioritisation of required regulatory reporting.
  • Deliver Operational Risk Framework and application for future management of Risk Reporting

Early Career Synopsis

Syn-e-tech Limited (Technical Change & Transition DirectorJan 01 to Feb 07

Contract consultancy based in the South West providing Programme Director and Executive level staff to top flight

and Tier 1 organisations to deliver Change and provide transformational expertise.

  • AXA Sunj-LifeNew Business Development Consultant
  • NHSNational Training Delivery Portfolio Manager
  • Legal & GeneralNew Business/Product Delivery Manager
  • CommerzBankInterim UK BCP & DR Director
  • HM Customs & ExciseInterim Change & Transition Programme Manager
  • JP Morgan ChaseEMEA Voice Transformation Director

Quality Profile Projects Limited – (Project Delivery Director)Mar 93 to Jan 01

  • BBC (Live Broadcast)Interim Head of Operations Delivery
  • BT (Marketing) plcFriends & Family Unified Data Operations Director

MOD (British Army to Mar 93

  • Royal Signals Technical Operations, Training & Logistics Director

Technical Experience & Capabilities

  • Project Methodologies of PMI, SDLC, DSDM, SCRUM, Agile, CIMMI, Six Sigma, Prince 2, ITIL
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office packages, MS Visio, MS Project and Professional CAD
  • Certified BT, DSDM, Vodafone, OO and GTX Programme management courses
  • CRM & Data reporting Oracle OBIEE, SalesForce, Dynamics Informatica, Chordiant, Clearview
  • Avaloq, IBM, GDPR, Asset, Equities, Cash, BCBS239 Risk aggregation, Tableau, ServiceNow
  • Solvency 2 (Pillar 2 & 3), WRAPS, Bond architecture, AML, PCI-DSS, KYC, On boarding
  • Siebel, Chordiant, GTX, MS Dynamics, Salesforce, IBM iSeries, ORACLE eSuite, NetSuite, Informatica
  • Voice Systems & Dealer boards AVAYA, Nortel, Vodafone, Meridian, BT, Cisco, A&TT, Genesis, VoIP
  • Data Centre connectivity design, voice & data networking, Cloud working and virtual systems.
  • Development and Delivery management in JAVA, Delphi, OpenRoad, C++, XML, Open Ingress, Unix

Business Professional accreditation & training

  • Project Management Iterative (Agile, Scrum, DSDM) & Waterfall (Prince 2)
  • Programme Management Programme Management Business Excellence
  • Digital Digital Design Methods & Process
  • IT Delivery Management Agile & DSDM Consortium, DSDM Practitioner

Six Sigma, OO Project & Programme Management

Education & qualifications

  • Open University & Changi University Agricultural Management & Science Degree
  • City & Guilds (London) Advanced Comms Theory, Applied Mathematics (Distinction)
  • Plymouth UniversityDiploma in Strategic Leadership & Executive Mgt (NEBSM)

Certificate in Personnel Practices (IPM)

Certificate in Advanced Training & Development (ITD) Advanced Programme Delivery Management Methods Intermediate Welsh, Basic German & Spanish

UK Citizen Flexible on location / Excellent references available upon request